Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a gallery concept, a work shop and a fast-moving online portal.

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MuseumNext

Switzerland, Geneva 19 to 21 April 2015

MuseumNext is Europe’s major conference on the future of museums. The event brings together delegates from around the world to discuss ‘what’s next?’ across all aspects of the museum including architecture, exhibitions, technology, skills, collections, conservation, purpose and leadership.

Oxford Philosophy Courses

Music

Easy Listening Blanton Museum Podcasts

Commissioned for the opening of the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin, Music for the Blanton by Donald Grantham premiered on April 24 and April 30, 2006. The work is in 18 short movements and is scored for ten instruments. Eight of the movements are intended to depict musically specific works of art in the musuem's collection. These eight movements are connected by brief solos and duos intended to summon the audience from the location of one art object to the next, and the entire work is framed by a prelude and a postlude. The works of art date from the 15th to the late 20th century and the music reflects these periods in tone and tempo.

Marcel Dicke

Why not eat insects?

Marcel Dicke makes an appetizing case for adding insects to everyone's diet. His message to squeamish chefs and foodies: delicacies like locusts and caterpillars compete with meat in flavor, nutrition and eco-friendliness.

Print Culture

Syntax

Great narration and content direction combined with irony, humor and intelligent critique. A magazine to be enjoyed alone and by yourself – no other distraction should be allowed. Quote by Kimberly Lloyd.

400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta’s fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife – accurate down to the block – when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.

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Qompendium Trivial

ENCRYPTION FOR THE SELF!

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From Kwanon to Canon

PostedFriday, 24.05.2013

One thing is more than clear that we as a publishing company must deliver quality above all and when it comes to images and production high resolution quality is the killing argument. When we are on the run from cities to cities, from events to parties and from one interesting site to another we always wanted a small pocket, super zoom camera with a big sensor of its very kind. And here it is, a Canon 1000 Ixus HS - the love of our team, which we are also giving away. But first check out our little summary on Canon and the logo development of the company, which we find very interesting.

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Look Book: Levi’s Vintage

PostedMonday, 08.04.2013

We at Qompendium receive quite a number of emails and brand notifications on an hourly basis. But it is look books like this one that we keep on our desks and enjoy, regardless of the product or the brand itself.

Dear brands, please make more effort in printed look books along with all the digital ones. Create collectibles. Support graphic design. Enhance your brand brochures.

Here is one example of how it is done: Levi’s Vintage Clothing digs deep into the Levi’s Archives to reproduce iconic garments from bygone eras. For Spring 2013, Levi’s Vintage Clothing pays tribute to the golden era of the American Hot Rod, and the sharply dressed car owners and spectators who sported Levi's. In addition to releasing the collection of Hot Rod inspired jeans and Sportswear, Levi's Vintage Clothing presents a collection of vintage photography, special events and collaborations initiated by the brand.

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Perfume from the Persians

PostedMonday, 22.10.2012

Perfume or parfum is a mixture of fragrant essential oils or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces "a pleasant scent." The odoriferous compounds that make up a perfume can be manufactured synthetically or extracted from plant or animal sources.

Perfumes have been known to exist in some of the earliest human civilizations, either through ancient texts or from archaeological digs. Modern perfumery began in the late 19th century with the commercial synthesis of aroma compounds such as vanillin or coumarin, which allowed for the composition of perfumes with smells previously unattainable solely from natural aromatics alone.

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Five

PostedSunday, 21.10.2012

At the age of twelve, Coco Chanel was handed over to the care of nuns, and for the next six years spent a stark, disciplined existence in a convent orphanage, Aubazine, founded in the twelfth century. From her earliest days at Aubazine, the number five had potent associations for Chanel. Aubazine had been founded by Cistercians, a Catholic order who placed great emphasis on numerology. The number five was especially esteemed as signifying the pure embodiment of a thing, its spirit, its mystic meaning. The paths that led Chanel to the cathedral for daily prayer were laid out in circular patterns repeating the number five.Her affinity for the number five co-mingled with the abbey gardens, and by extension the lush surrounding hillsides abounding with cistus, a five-petal rose. Cistercians, an ancient monastic order of Catholicism, derived the name of their order from this flower.In 1920, when presented with small glass vials of scent numbered 1–5 and 20–24, for her assessment, she chose the sample composition contained in the fifth vial. Chanel told her master perfumer, Ernest Beaux, whom she had commissioned to develop a fragrance with modern innovations: "I present my dress collections on the fifth of May, the fifth month of the year and so we will let this sample number five keep the name it has already, it will bring good luck."

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In good times we build up reserves which we then consume during harder times. This is a very strong recipe for sustainable success.

Steve Jobs

Any democracy depends on a free healthy press. We need to secure the news gathering organizations and editorial boards. I don't want to descend into a nation of bloggers. I think we need editorial more then ever.

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Focus & Simplicity

That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.Steve Jobs

Video

Epic Panasonic Advertisement

Panasonic Corporation (パナソニック株式会社, Panasonikku Kabushiki-kaisha?), formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha?), is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Its main business is in electronics manufacturing and it produces products under a variety of names including Panasonic and Technics.

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Data-driven journalism is the future, says the inventor of the Internet Tim Berners-Lee and urges reporters should be hunting for stories in datasets.

Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, (born 8 June 1955, also known as "TimBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.

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Capitalism’s Short-Term Profit Trade-Off Myth

Some believe "conscious capitalism" is too idealistic and can’t compete in the marketplace with pure-profit companies. But when you work from a higher purpose you unleash greater degrees of commitment, loyalty and creativity in the workplace.

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PostedFriday, 26.11.2010

Some believe "conscious capitalism" is too idealistic and can’t compete in the marketplace with pure-profit companies. But when you work from a higher purpose you unleash greater degrees of commitment, loyalty and creativity in the workplace.

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What is a Time Bank?

Time Bank is a platform where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypasing money as a measure of value. It is baded on the premise that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources. And the good news? They open their very first store in New York.

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What is a Time Bank?

PostedSunday, 07.11.2010

Time Bank is a platform where groups and individuals can pool and trade time and skills, bypasing money as a measure of value. It is baded on the premise that everyone in the field of culture has something to contribute and that it is possible to develop and sustain an alternative economy by connecting existing needs with unacknowledged resources. And the good news? They open their very first store in New York.

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Homage Maximilian Faktorowicz

PostedMonday, 18.10.2010

Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maximilian Faktorowicz (1877–August 30, 1938), Max Factor, a Polish-Jewish cosmetician. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for 0 million dollars. Presently, the Max Factor name is a popular brand of Procter & Gamble Co., which purchased the company in 1991.

After emigrating to the America in 1904 Max Factor moved his family and business to Los Angeles, California, seeing an opportunity to provide made to order wigs and theatrical make-up to the growing film industry. Besides selling his own make-up products he soon became the West Coast distributor of Leichner and Minor, two leading theatrical make-up manufacturers.

In the early years of the business Factor personally applied his products to actors and actresses. He developed a reputation for being able to customize makeup to present actors and actresses in the best possible light on screen. Among his most notable clients were Ben Turpin, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland. As a result virtually all of the major movie actresses were regular customers of the Max Factor beauty salon, located near Hollywood Boulevard.

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Estée Lauder

If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estee Lauder, you've got to work hard, you've got to stick to it and you've got to believe in what you're doing.

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Quote: Estée Lauder

PostedMonday, 13.09.2010

If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estee Lauder, you've got to work hard, you've got to stick to it and you've got to believe in what you're doing.

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The Mother of All Business Models

"If you're important enough you shouldn't even pay to use the mobile device. They're going to make so much money from your attention. If you're really important, thinking Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, Mike Arrington, they should pay you – a lot – to use their device. Wow." Dave Winer, 2010

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Dave Winer

PostedSaturday, 02.01.2010

Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.